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YANGON, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- A small bomb explosion in Myanmar's Yangon, injured one foeigner at midnight, Local witnesses said on Tuesday. The blast occurred in the ninth floor of the Traders Hotel at about 11:30 midnight (local time) on Monday, witnesses added. Currently, many media reporters have arrived this hotel, but police have not provided further information. A small bomb explosion in Thakayta, Myanmar's Yangon, injured two children Sunday evening. Another minor one occurred with a roadside bus stop kiosk in Yangon's Insein township without casualties on last Saturday midnight.

KABUL, April 27, 2010 – The discovery of six roadside bombs, including one that insurgents were in the process of planting, highlighted operations in Afghanistan yesterday and today, military officials reported. In Kandahar province’s Arghandab district this morning, an International Security Assistance Force patrol found a roadside bomb near a school. It detonated when an explosive ordnance disposal team was attempting to disarm it, but no one was hurt. An Afghan patrol found a roadside bomb made from two anti-tank mines in Helmand province’s Beshud district yesterday. An EOD team destroyed it. In Zabul province’s Qalat district yesterday, a combined...

A Deadly Month for U.S. Troops in Afghanistan RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. July 20, 2009 KABUL, Afghanistan — Four American soldiers were killed by a roadside explosion in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, making July the deadliest month for American service members in the country since the 2001 invasion and underscoring the frightening rise in the sophistication and accuracy of roadside bombs. With the four newest fatalities, at least 30 Americans have died in the first three weeks of July, surpassing the highest previous monthly toll, 28, reached in June 2008. Part of the reason for July’s sharply higher fatalities —...

WASHINGTON, June 9, 2008 – U.S. and Iraqi military operations in northern Iraq have cut the number of roadside bombs there nearly in half since February, the commander of Multinational Division North told reporters at a Pentagon briefing today. Video The number of roadside bombs -- known in military parlance as improvised explosive devices, or IEDs -- discovered in May was 550, compared to 900 in February, Army Maj. Gen. Mark P. Hertling told reporters in a teleconference from Camp Striker in Iraq. Coalition troops clear about half the IEDs each month, he said. Hertling, who also commands the...

BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan, Jan. 3, 2008 – Afghan national security forces saved the lives of Afghan civilians and coalition forces when they found two improvised explosive devices placed on commonly used routes in the Sangin district of Afghanistan’s Helmand province last week, military officials reported today. Afghan National Army soldiers from 205th Corps detonate an improvised explosive device discovered on a hillside in the Sangin district of Afghanistan’s Helmand province, Dec. 29, 2007. The Afghan soldiers found the IED while conducting a security patrol in the area. U.S. Army photo  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. During a...

Iran 'arming Taliban with roadside bombs' By Tom Coghlan in Kabul Last Updated: 2:03am BST 04/10/2007 Iran is supplying the Taliban in Afghanistan with the same bomb-making equipment it provides to insurgents in Iraq, according to British military intelligence officers. US Army General Dan McNeill, the commander of Nato forces in Afghanistan, said that the discovery of more than 50 roadside bombs and timers in lorries crossing the border from Iran last month proves that Iran's Quds Revolutionary Guards are actively supporting the Taliban. The allegation will add to fears that the escalating war of words between Iran and the...

2nd BCT PAO, 101st Abn. Div. BAGHDAD – A local national’s tip led to the arrest of three terrorists August 3, south of Baghdad and in a separate incident two terrorists were killed while emplacing a roadside bomb. While conducting an area reconnaissance mission, soldiers from 3rd Battalion, 4th Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division, along with Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, were approached by an Iraqi citizen claiming terrorists killed his two sons and was willing to take the troops to homes in the area known by...

CAMP MERCURY, Iraq (April 3, 2006) -- Lance Cpl. Jason Willis has a new look on life after recovering from injuries he incurred just over a month ago. While driving a seven-ton truck on a late-night re-supply mission in late February, the heavy equipment operator attached to Headquarters and Support Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, was struck by an improvised explosive device. “I remember it quite well,” said the 23-year-old from Lakeland, Fla. “It went off right next to my door and blew it in three spots, through the window, gun port and through the floorboard.” At first he...

WASHINGTON, March 6, 2006 – Two car bombs have killed six Iraqi civilians and wounded 34 in the past two days in Iraq, and troops from Multinational Division Baghdad discovered a roadside bomb and detained suspects who fled from the scene. Six Iraqis were killed and 23 were wounded today when a car bomb detonated near the Baqubah mayor's office. Iraqi army and police provided security and initial medical attention to the wounded on the scene, officials said. The wounded were taken to Baqubah General Hospital for treatment. Community leaders were meeting with Baqubah Mayor Khalid Al Seniary at the...

Woodstock – Jerry West was a bundle of nerves yesterday, waiting for more word of a grenade and car bomb attack in Iraq that seriously wounded his son-in-law, killed a Vermont soldier and injured another man from Rochester. West will depart early this morning for Walter Reed Army Hospital in Bethesda, Md., where his daughter’s husband, Sgt. Jose Pequeno, is expected to arrive early this evening. “As soon as I hear what’s happening, I’m getting on the road,” West said. Driving down with him will be his stepson, Jon McGoon, a lifelong friend of Pequeno’s and a member of the...

Iraqi Special Troops Company and Macedonian Rangers executed Operation Level Sand this morning at 1 a.m. north of Baghdad to neutralize terrorist activity and destroy weapons caches in the area. The operation netted 18 suspected terrorists and resulted in the confiscation of 10 AK-47 assault rifles and three pistols. Soldiers from 3rd Battalion, 6th Iraqi Army Division, and 2nd Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, worked together to disrupt insurgent activity northwest of Baghdad in a combined cordon-and-search operation that began about 11:30 p.m. Feb. 15 and ended yesterday morning. The 6th IA and 2-22...

ISKANDARIYAH, Iraq (Army News Service, Feb. 10, 2006) – Iraqi Army and coalition forces discovered three large roadside bombs, killed two terrorist suspects and captured 12 others during patrols and raids south of Baghdad this week. Iraqi Army soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 4th Brigade, 8th Iraqi Division, along with U.S. Soldiers from 2/8th Infantry, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, found the first roadside bomb Feb. 7 in Iskandariyah, located about 25 south of Baghdad. The bomb consisted of four 82mm rounds, one 155mm round and three rockets near Iskandariyah. The second roadside bomb, discovered near the same area,...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9, 2006 – American and Iraqi soldiers found multiple roadside bombs and weapons caches during anti-terrorist operations in Iraq over the past several days. In fact, Iraqi army and coalition soldiers discovered three separate roadside bombs without incident over the past 24 hours. Iraqi soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 4th Brigade, 8th Army Division, along with U.S. soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, found the first roadside bomb near Iskandariyah. The bomb consisted of four 82 mm rounds, one 155 mm round and three rockets. A second roadside bomb was discovered...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5, 2006 – Iraqi forces discovered a roadside bomb and caught the would-be bomber of a bridge in two separate incidents in Tikrit, Iraq, yesterday, Multinational Security Transition Command Iraq officials said. Iraqi police officers reported an improvised explosive device discovered along a Tikrit business route to coalition personnel. Bomb disposal personnel cleared the two surface=laid artillery shells, which had been concealed with a timing device in a plastic bag. The same day, Iraqi soldiers identified and detained a would-be bomber and defused an explosive device after some quick coordination with coalition personnel. Iraqi troops became suspicious of...

When Col. Ken DeVan goes to work at his Army office southeast of Tucson, the prayers of thousands of military families go with him. He's part of a new Pentagon push to bring troops back from war alive. DeVan, head of combat development at Fort Huachuca's military intelligence school in Sierra Vista, is involved in a growing national effort to neutralize the threat posed by IEDs, military-speak for "improvised explosive devices" — the top killer of U.S. troops in Iraq. Simply put, IEDs are the makeshift bombs -------

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5, 2005 – A Task Force Baghdad soldier was killed Dec. 4 when his patrol struck an improvised explosive device in eastern Baghdad, officials reported today. The soldier's name is being withheld pending notification of next of kin. In other news, five suspected terrorists were detained Dec. 4 after Iraqi police and U.S. troops found an IED near Bayji and a cache of IEDs near Kirkuk, officials said. A joint patrol of Iraqi police and soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division's 1st Brigade Combat Team discovered the IED cache waiting to be emplaced near Kirkuk. The roadside bombs...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 23, 2005 – Iraqi army troops from the 3rd Battalion, 4th Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division, captured three insurgents Nov. 22 in Baghdad, military officials reported. Officials said the military-aged suspects were apprehended after they threw a CD containing sniper video footage from their vehicle at a traffic-control point and tried to turn around and get away. Iraqi troops questioned the three men, who admitted attacking coalition forces in Baghdad, Fallujah and Najaf, officials said. The men and materials were taken into custody pending further investigation. Elsewhere in Iraq, Iraqi troops from the 2nd Battalion, 4th Brigade, 8th...

Who’s Killing Our Boys By William John Hagan Houston Home Journal Warner Robins, GA 08/10/2005 One third of the 1,402 American Soldiers killed by hostile fire have died as a result of “roadside bombs” or what the US military, euphemistically, refers to as Improvised Explosive Devices (IED). While, at the beginning of the American Occupation of Iraq, the term improvised appeared to describe these devices, this is no longer the case. In the past few months, it has become clear that these IEDs are no longer the makeshift bombs of the early insurgency, but sophisticated factory-manufactured weapons from a deadly...

The car bombs killing troops and civilians in Iraq have grown more sophisticated as insurgents gain training and financing across the border in Syria, defense officials say. The officials estimate that improvised explosive devices (IEDs), both roadside and car-borne, now account for 50 percent of all daily attacks, or "contacts," in Iraq. When the IED attacks began in full force in late 2003, most bombs were made of artillery and mortar shells. But lately, the coalition is discovering more sophisticated bombs made of a mix of explosives, some of which include penetrating warheads to kill people inside buildings. At the...